The Bengals have been here before. They’ve put themselves in a tough situation at the start of the regular season in each of the last two years, and both times, they dug themselves out of it.
So it was no surprise that head coach Zac Taylor was confident in his team’s ability to bounce back from the latest Week 1 loss to the Patriots.
“It’s just frustrating that we didn't play well enough to win,” Taylor said. “That’s just the biggest frustration, looking at the turnover battle and then looking at tackles. We got to tackle better, and we got to win the turnover battle.